Friendship Quotes

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.Max Jacob

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]Jacques Chirac

I don't know what the fuss is about. There are 7,000 girls [on her friendship with Mick Jagger]Carla Bruni

And even though we donít have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers. [on coach Larri Passos]Gustavo Kuerten

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself aloneOuida

If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.Chin-Ning Chu

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.Brooks Adams

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D Rockefeller

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.George Eliot

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.Bruce Lee

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.Albert Camus

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.Lord Byron

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.Edward Young

Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.George Herbert

Louise this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendshipHumphrey Bogart

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.Simone De Beauvoir

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.Katherine Mansfield

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. [In other words learn to enjoy your own company and it's the start of a life long friendship]Charles Hughes

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.Francis Crawford

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.Truman Capote

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.Charles Peguy

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.Francis Bacon

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.Edward Gibbon

We content ourselves that friendship is a reality, and not a fancy - that it is built upon a rock.Douglas Fairbanks

Friendship and mutual co-operation must be the keywords for alternative ways of working once the Euro Ivory Tower has been demolished.Steve Blake

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.Kenneth Tynan

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Socrates

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.Henry Ward Beecher

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.Sydney Smith

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.Anton Chekhov

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore De Balzac

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.Clifton Fadiman

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.Barbara Bush

I feel that I contributed well, but my strength and energy in that department is running out. I made, not friendships, never got anywhere like that, but you know I've formed slight bonds with people and they were lovely and graciousLesley Brain

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.Sir Thomas Aquinas